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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1985
Filed:
May. 24, 1984
Miles R Cherkasky, Appleton, WI (US);
Ernest V Canamero, Green Bay, WI (US);
Other;
Abstract
Apparatus and method for continuously forming pizza crusts, particularly deep dish pizza crusts having substantially vertical sidewalls, in pizza pans of corresponding shape. A ribbon of deep dish pizza dough is formed and superimposed on a conveyor comprising flights including upstanding cutting rings within which pizza pans to be filled are disposed. A roller passing over the cutting rings severs dough disks disposed within each cutting ring; the dough disks drop into each pizza pan. Each pan is then registered with a diaphragm which is inflated to urge each dough disk into intimate conformity with the pan, then the diaphragm is withdrawn from the pan, leaving a finished crust. A carriage periodically moves the diaphragm in the contra-machine direction to engage the following flight. The pans are then removed from the conveyor flights to recover pan and pizza crust assemblies. The diaphragm carriage is driven in the machine direction by the conveyor to ensure accurate registration between the diaphragm and pan when the diaphragm is distended.